 | Joseph Guy - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1810 - 548 pages
...punishment is milder being only to be drawn and hanged 'try ffie neck till dead. ~ 'Petit Treason may happen three ways : by a servant killing his master, a wife her husband, &c. A servant who kills his master whom he has left, upon a grudge conceived against him during his... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Criminal law - 1819 - 710 pages
...reduced to three, by 25 Edw. III. st. 5. c. 2. though at common law they were more numerous. These are by a servant killing his master, a wife her husband, and an ecclesiastical person, either secular or regular, his superior. A servant who kills his master after he has left him, on malice... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...treason, (which is an aggravated degree of murder) according to the statute 25 Edw. III. c. 2. may happen three ways : by a servant killing his master, a wife her husband, or an ecclesiastical person (either secular or regular) his superior, to whom he owes faith and obedience.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...COKRUFTION OF BLOOD. TREASON, PETTY, or PETIT, according to the stat. 25 Edw. III. c. 2, may happen three ways: by a servant killing his master, a wife her husband, or an ecclesiastical person (either secular or regular) his superior, to whom he owes faith and obedience.... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...™cnt. Petit treason, according to 25 Edw. 3, c. 2, might, until petit treason, abolished, happen three ways ; by a servant killing his master, a wife her husband, or an ecclesiastical person, either secular or regular, his superior, to whom he owed faith and obedience... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 pages
...England, during a period of the Heptarchy, murder was punished by fines only. So late as Henry VI II. 's time, the crime was compounded for in Wales. Murderers...an ecclesiastical person his superior, statute 25 Edward III., 1350. The enactments relating to this crime are very numerous, and its wilful commission... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - Chronology, Historical - 1851 - 700 pages
...offence. In England, during a period of the Heptarchy, murder was punished by fines only. So late a» Henry VIII. 's time, the crime was compounded for in Wales. Murderers were allowed benefit of clergy hi 1503. Aggravated murder, or petit treason, may happen in three ways ; by a servant killing his master... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - Chronology, Historical - 1851 - 752 pages
...England, during a period of the Heptarchy, murder was punished by fines only. So late as Henry VIII.'s time, the crime was compounded for in Wales. Murderers were allowed benefit of clergy in 1603. Aggravated murder, or petit treason, may happen in three ways; by a servant killing his master;... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1853 - 776 pages
...England, during a period of the Heptarchy, murder was punished by fines only. So late as Henry VIII.'s time, the crime was compounded for in Wales. Murderers...an ecclesiastical person his superior, statute 25 Edward III., 1350. The enactments relating to this crime are very numerous, and its wilful commission... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1857 - 764 pages
...England, during a period of the Heptarchy, murder was punished by fines only. So late as Henry VIIL'a time, the crime was compounded for in Wales. Murderers...three ways ; by a servant killing his master ; a wife lier husband ; and an ecclesiastical person his superior, stat. 25 Edw. III. 1350. The enactments relating... | |
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The Persians did not punish the first offence. In England, during a period of the Heptarchy, murder was punished by fines only. So late as Henry VIII.'s time, the crime was compounded for in Wales. 
